I would like to request that pages be exactly a power of 2 size (including headers), and that when reading and writing pages the buffers are aligned to a reasonably large power of 2 size.
The reason for this is that often in embedded systems the low level device drivers and filesystems work *much* faster when these constraints are followed. It probably wouldn't have much effect in a desktop environment where there are very sophisticated filesystems and so on that have efficient caching. On an unsophisticated filesystem reading 1043 bytes often really reads 2048 or 16384 and tosses out the bytes you don't use (instead of caching them for later). Thanks, Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
